The word 'monoxide' is correct and can be used in written English.
Monoxide is a compound composed of one atom of oxygen and one atom of a specific element. It can be used in contexts related to chemistry and other scientific fields. Example: Carbon monoxide is composed of one atom of oxygen and one atom of carbon.
"Ask to see the gas safety certificate and make sure the property is fitted with a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector".
It's as though every factory in our society had an advanced fire safety system – smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, sprinklers, high pressure hoses, fancy fire extinguishers – while everybody's home had nothing.
Best of all, the emissions will be well below the Clean Air Act's requirements with 99% of the sulphur being removed, and emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulates (tiny pieces of soot) being far lower than is possible using scrubbers.So far, two IGCC plants have entered service in America, with support from the Department of Energy.
And older telescopes can detect only strong, simple signals of the sort emitted by small molecules like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, which have two and three atoms respectively.
Then, mixing the carbon monoxide with more steam in the presence of a suitable catalyst yields CO2 and still more hydrogen; again a mixture that can be separated quite easily.It is this idea, known as the integrated gasifier combined cycle (IGCC) approach, that has environmentalists excited.
Carbon monoxide offers a lot more energy per molecule to hungry microbes than methane does but Mars's carbon monoxide level is stable and much higher than the claimed methane level.
A machine called the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER), heats solid waste to produce syngas (synthetic gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen), ferments food slops to produce alcohol, and chemically processes the two to make biodiesel that powers a generator.
Since the early 1990s, though, catalytic converters (fitted to about 80% of cars currently on the road) have reduced carbon monoxide emissions enough to allow for reconsideration.
In this case, the ethanol is used simply as an oxygenate (ie, an oxygen-rich additive) to reduce the carbon monoxide produced during combustion and to raise the octane rating of the fuel enough to protect the engine from "knocking" under load a condition caused by the air-fuel mixture in the cylinders exploding prematurely instead of burning smoothly.
Researchers are keen to understand how such events happen, and thus how they might be forecast.Dan Jaffe, a chemist at the University of Washington, in Seattle, knew that pollutants such as carbon monoxide from Asia had been spotted as far across the Pacific ocean as Hawaii, and he wondered if they ever made it all the way to America's west coast.
This species lives by reacting carbon monoxide with water.
